Madeleine L’Engle

Writer

Born: 29 November 1918

Died: 6 September 2007

Birthplace: New York City, New York

Best known as: The author of A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1963 for her novel A Wrinkle in Time, a story of trans-dimensional derring-do. She wrote several other novels for children, many of which involved the same cast of characters in science-based, philosophical adventures.